Athena in 2007

2007 was 99% worth living.

In 2005, Athena did 9 things, went 1 place, met 0 people, and consumed 310 products.

Athena has written 3 year in review entries…

Years: 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Months: All Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

January

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn yoga — Worth doing!
  2. read war and peace — Worth doing!
  3. Finish my website — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) — Worth consuming!
  2. The Nanny Diaries: A Novel
  3. The Handmaid's Tale (New Windmill) — Worth consuming!
  4. Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
  5. The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh — Worth consuming!
  6. The Code of the Woosters
  7. Songbook — Worth consuming!
  8. Farenheit 451 — Worth consuming!
  9. The Secret Life of Bees — Worth consuming!
  10. The Story of My Life (Bantam Classic)
  11. A Passage to India — Worth consuming!
  12. Treasure Island (Scholastic Classics) — Worth consuming!
  13. Baby Proof — Worth consuming!
  14. Charlotte's Web — Worth consuming!
  15. Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Nosferatu - Special Edition
  2. The Last Samurai (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  3. Shaun of the Dead — Worth consuming!
  4. Network — Worth consuming!
  5. Funny Girl — Worth consuming!
  6. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Wedding Crashers (R-Rated Widescreen Edition) — Not worth consuming
  8. Funny Girl — Worth consuming!
  9. Crash - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  10. Entourage - The Complete Second Season
  11. Paperclips — Worth consuming!
  12. Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (1977 & 2004 Versions, 2-Disc Widescreen Edition)
  13. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) — Worth consuming!

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February

Added to 43 Things:
  1. move out
  2. wake up earlier
  3. get my G license
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. have conversations late into the night with fascinating people — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Speaking with the Angel
  2. How to Be Good
  3. Anansi Boys — Worth consuming!
  4. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation — Worth consuming!
  5. Housekeeping vs. the Dirt — Worth consuming!
  6. The Old Testament
Listened to:
  1. Kind of Blue — Worth consuming!
  2. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot — Worth consuming!
  3. Play — Worth consuming!
  4. Are You Experienced — Worth consuming!
  5. Different Class — Worth consuming!
  6. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness — Worth consuming!
  7. Rain Dogs — Worth consuming!
  8. 18
  9. Back to Black — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Jude
  2. V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. The Devil Wears Prada (Widescreen Edition)
  4. Stranger Than Fiction — Worth consuming!
  5. Flushed Away (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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March

Visited on 43 Places:
  1. Rynek Glowny — Worth visiting!
Read:
  1. Barefoot Contessa at Home: Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again — Worth consuming!
  2. Forever Summer — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Sailor Moon S - The Complete Uncut TV Set — Worth consuming!
  2. Fruits Basket (5 dvd's/26 episodes) — Worth consuming!
  3. Little Miss Sunshine — Worth consuming!
  4. The Usual Suspects [Blu-ray]
  5. Gravitation: The Complete TV Series — Worth consuming!
  6. The Departed (Full Screen Edition)
  7. The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  8. Borat - Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Widescreen Edition)
  9. Casino Royale (2-Disc Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  10. The Holiday — Worth consuming!

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April

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. learn pilates — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Charmed Thirds — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. A Fever You Can't Sweat Out — Worth consuming!
  2. Doctor Who - Original Television Soundtrack — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Le Diner de Cons (Original French Version with English Subtitles — Worth consuming!
  2. Cinema Paradiso
  3. Brothers — Worth consuming!

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May

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. knit a clapotis — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Ruby in the Smoke — Worth consuming!
  2. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals — Worth consuming!
  3. Northanger Abbey (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) — Worth consuming!
  4. The Shadow in the North — Worth consuming!
  5. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) — Worth consuming!
Listened to:
  1. The Beatles (The White Album) — Worth consuming!
  2. Give Up — Worth consuming!
  3. The Artist in the Ambulance
  4. Chroma — Worth consuming!
  5. 40 Oz. to Freedom — Worth consuming!
  6. The Best of Django Reinhardt — Worth consuming!
  7. Everyone into Position — Worth consuming!
  8. All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Living Daylights — Worth consuming!
  2. From Russia With Love — Worth consuming!

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June

Added to 43 Things:
  1. knit a sweater
  2. get in shape
Completed on 43 Things:
  1. Listen to Mozart's Requieum without interruption — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. The Iliad of Homer (Phoenix Books)
  2. The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
  3. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)
  4. Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics)
  5. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  6. Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library) — Worth consuming!
  7. The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings, 1)
  8. The Steinbeck Centennial Collection: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl, Cannery Row, Travels With Charley, In Search of America (Boxed Set)
  9. White Teeth
  10. Boy Next Door
  11. The Chronicles of Narnia — Worth consuming!
  12. Watership Down: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  13. The Stranger (A Vintage Book, V-2)
  14. The Three Musketeers (Wordsworth Classics)
  15. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
Listened to:
  1. Appetite for Destruction
Watched:
  1. Ocean's Twelve — Worth consuming!
  2. 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!
  3. Watership Down — Worth consuming!
  4. American Tail (Clam)
  5. Lady and the Tramp (50th Anniversary Edition) (Platinum Edition) — Worth consuming!
  6. American Graffiti: Collector's Edition (Widescreen)
  7. A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
  8. Raiders of the Lost Ark - Widescreen Version (1981)
  9. Some Like It Hot (Collector's Edition)
  10. Apocalypse Now - The Complete Dossier (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)
  11. The Queen — Worth consuming!
  12. The African Queen [IMPORT]
  13. The Maltese Falcon (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)
  14. It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
  15. Where Angels Fear to Tread
Consumed:
  1. Tofu
  2. veggie burger
  3. Falafel
  4. Baklava
  5. Kiwi
  6. pomegranate
  7. black olives
  8. Papaya
  9. brown rice
  10. flax seeds
  11. Banana Nut Bread
  12. Jerk chicken — Worth consuming!
  13. fried plantains
  14. Corn
  15. Pierogies

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July

Read:
  1. A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers — Worth consuming!
  2. Diary of Anne Frank (Imprint Books) — Worth consuming!
  3. 84, Charing Cross Road (Panorama de Narrativas) — Worth consuming!
  4. Julie of the Wolves (Summer Reading Edition) (Julie of the Wolves) — Worth consuming!
  5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Alice in Wonderland (Masterpiece Edition) — Worth consuming!
  2. 84 Charing Cross Road — Worth consuming!
  3. The Quiet Man (Collector's Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Kitty Foyle — Worth consuming!
  5. Back to the Future Part II — Worth consuming!

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August

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. knit socks — Worth doing!
Read:
  1. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation — Worth consuming!
  2. Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic) — Worth consuming!
  3. Bridge to Terabithia (Summer Reading Edition) — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Bridge to Terabithia — Worth consuming!
  2. Princess Tutu: Complete Collection — Worth consuming!

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September

Read:
  1. Peter Pan in Scarlet — Worth consuming!
  2. Winnie-the-Pooh
Watched:
  1. Harvey — Worth consuming!
  2. Dutch — Worth consuming!
  3. The Man Who Never Was — Worth consuming!
  4. The Fountainhead — Worth consuming!
  5. Ocean's Thirteen — Worth consuming!

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October

Read:
  1. Watership Down — Worth consuming!
  2. Street of Riches — Worth consuming!
  3. The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Worth consuming!
  4. Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels) — Worth consuming!
  5. His Dark Materials: New Edition
  6. Little Children (Movie Tie-In) — Worth consuming!
  7. Running with Scissors: A Memoir — Worth consuming!
  8. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
  9. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel — Worth consuming!
  10. Twelfth Night or What You Will (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
  11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara — Worth consuming!
  2. Running With Scissors
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!

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November

Completed on 43 Things:
  1. have better posture
Read:
  1. Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
  2. Les Liaisons dangereuses (Oxford World's Classics)
  3. The Motorcycle Diaries
  4. Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
  5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
  6. Green Eggs and Ham Deluxe Edition (Classic Seuss)
  7. Rebecca — Worth consuming!
  8. Life of Pi: Student Edition
  9. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - The Definitive Edition
  10. L Etranger
  11. The Wind in the Willows (Unabridged Classics)
  12. Girl with a Pearl Earring: (Deluxe Edition)
  13. Watership Down (Puffin Books) — Worth consuming!
  14. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  15. Charlotte's Web Read-Aloud Edition
Watched:
  1. James and the Giant Peach (Special Edition)
  2. Persuasion
  3. Good Bye, Lenin!
  4. Mansfield Park (1999)
  5. The Man in the Iron Mask
  6. Girl With a Pearl Earring
  7. Cyrano de Bergerac
  8. Legally Blonde (Special Edition)
  9. Emma
  10. Runaway Jury (Widescreen Edition)
  11. The Great Gatsby
  12. The First Wives Club
  13. Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
  14. Mermaids
  15. Matilda (Special Edition)

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December

Read:
  1. The Making of C S Forester's Horatio Hornblower
  2. Neuromancer
  3. Specimen Days: A Novel — Worth consuming!
  4. This Side of Paradise — Worth consuming!
  5. An Assembly Such as This: A Novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman (Fitzwilliam Darcy Gentleman)
  6. Mr. Darcy's Diary — Worth consuming!
  7. I Am America (And So Can You!) — Worth consuming!
  8. No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach — Worth consuming!
  9. This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics) — Worth consuming!
  10. Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl
  11. Specimen Days~Michael Cunningham — Worth consuming!
Watched:
  1. Croupier — Worth consuming!
  2. Sleepy Hollow — Worth consuming!
  3. Layer Cake (Widescreen Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  4. Splendor in the Grass — Worth consuming!
  5. Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
  6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  7. Volver — Worth consuming!
  8. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass — Worth consuming!
  9. The Lives of Others — Worth consuming!
  10. The Valet — Worth consuming!
  11. 2001 - A Space Odyssey (Two-Disc Special Edition) — Worth consuming!
  12. Ratatouille — Worth consuming!
  13. Amazing Grace — Worth consuming!
  14. Stardust (Widescreen Edition) — Worth consuming!

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